I went to my old neighborhood tonight, because it was hot, and the apartment felt constricting, and I felt the fresh air and water might do the hangover good ( Read more... )

This morning, the sun is very, very bright. No, really. Brighter than it ought to be. Maybe we're due an unexpected, premature supernova ( Read more... )

Jessica's letter finally came after two months of sitting in mail limbo. Highlight of the day, for sure.

I was going to pair this with Gaiman's Vampire Sestina, but I've had two Dagger story attempts just sitting around, and I decided to combine them into some bastardization of prose.

Maybe I should attempt some sort of Beowulf direction with her ( Read more... )

I just had a five hour phone conversation with Alicia Swan.

This is like something out of a Jon Cusack movie.

As if there was even any doubt.

Your results:
You are Han Solo
Han Solo
77%
Lando Calrissian
77%
Chewbacca
69%
Luke Skywalker
66%
Anakin Skywalker
65%
Mace Windu
63%
Boba Fett
62%
Princess Leia
61%
Padme
57%
Jar Jar Binks
54%

Even though you've been described as
reckless, selfish and cocky, you're the
type of person others love to be ( Read more... )

It needs to be documented that last night, I achieved a life goal ( Read more... )

Dear People Who Broke Into My Car,

Thank you for shattering the driver's side window. Thank you for stealing my CD player. Thank you for stealing Rilo Kiley's The Execution of All Things, and leaving everything else alone. Thanks for grabbing my cell phone charger, too, I'm sure you really need a three-year old phone charger. Thank you for rifling ( Read more... )

Dagger Doll is a character who has lived in my sketchbook for quite some time. She's had quite a few iterations from punk-rock queen to psychic vampire to Equilibrium styled heroine v. future society ( Read more... )

I unloaded the truck today, so that I could compress three dufflebags to two, two cases of books to one, and so on. I stowed the TV and Nintendo in my corner of my parents' basement. I filled a trash bag of clothes to give to Goodwill. I threw my comic book collection, from seventh grade to current, into a dumpster (Well, not everything ( Read more... )

Well, I packed my truck and left. First stop, home through Milwaukee. I left the Cities at 5, and aroung 8:30, got hungry, so I stopped off in Black River Falls to dine at a Burger King ( Read more... )